im building a new desktop soon and I will add a graphics card later. which of these are the best for money. I am going to use this card to play minecraft on lowest settings at 14+ far render distance(optifine) . also I am planning to buy battlefield 4 and I am playing at high settings with no AA at 1080P.
Tri-X 280X. Drop the PSU to something between 550W & 650W (SeaSonic M12II 620 would be a good choice). I'd also get a Arc Midi R2 over the Storm Scout 2, but that's a personal opinion and different people like different cases.
And an SS2 does just slightly better than a Define R4 in GPU temps, and I'd like to see you tell me a Define R4 can't handle a 290.
With a ridiculous amount of noise and throttling, sure.
The R4 is absolutely not what people make it out to be. It consistently trails the pack in both thermal and acoustic performance under a workload far lesser than that of the OP's build.
My R4 can handle two 7870s and an i7 overclocked to 4.5GHz (running Furmark and prime95) just fine with two 140mm fans running at 50% on both intake and exhaust, I never need to run the 3rd exhaust and bottom intake, even though they're there.
Yes, it's not as good as some other options for the same price, but its not bad either. I am fully confident it could handle a 290X or even crossfire 290s just fine.
The difference is literally a few degrees. If the R4 can't handle a 290X that would mean that no case under $200 would be able to either.
"A few degrees"
With an overclocked 560 Ti and 2700K, the R4 was already trailing the other enclosures by a decent margin. You can't just say "well, that's only a few degrees" and "invalidate" my point. That's about as much of a non-argument as you can get.
It performs poorly, both thermally and acoustically. You can dance around that point as much as you want with retarded reasoning, but it's still there, and visible in benchmarks.
Dual 290s are pumping around 600w of heat minimum directly into the enclosure, unless you're stupid enough to use the reference cooler. Now try getting rid of that with only two fans, plus extra heat caused by the CPU, etc.
1. sapphire dual x r9 280 3gb ($260)
2. sapphire tri-x r9 280x 3gb ($380)
3. s
apphire tri-x r9 290 4gb ($530)
5. msi twin frozr gtx 770 2gb ($430)
intel core i5 4460 3.2ghz
msi g55 sli
kingston hyperx 8gb ddr3-1600
wd caviar blue 1tb 7200rpm
CM storm scout ii
1 CM megaflow blue led 200mm case fan
seasonic m12ii 750watt
K95 RGB / Logitech G502 PS / Alienware AW3418DW / ViewSonic XG2703-GS / Sennheiser HD 598
But it's not pretty and flashy and blindingly bright with wonderful LEDs!
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It's not an overstatement, the 290 won't run well at all in anything similar to the Storm Scout 2.
if you want me to choose r9 290 which is the most expensive than forcing me to change the case to something a lot more expensive just no
With a ridiculous amount of noise and throttling, sure.
The R4 is absolutely not what people make it out to be. It consistently trails the pack in both thermal and acoustic performance under a workload far lesser than that of the OP's build.
Yes, it's not as good as some other options for the same price, but its not bad either. I am fully confident it could handle a 290X or even crossfire 290s just fine.
K95 RGB / Logitech G502 PS / Alienware AW3418DW / ViewSonic XG2703-GS / Sennheiser HD 598
"A few degrees"
With an overclocked 560 Ti and 2700K, the R4 was already trailing the other enclosures by a decent margin. You can't just say "well, that's only a few degrees" and "invalidate" my point. That's about as much of a non-argument as you can get.
It performs poorly, both thermally and acoustically. You can dance around that point as much as you want with retarded reasoning, but it's still there, and visible in benchmarks.
Dual 290s are pumping around 600w of heat minimum directly into the enclosure, unless you're stupid enough to use the reference cooler. Now try getting rid of that with only two fans, plus extra heat caused by the CPU, etc.